The Life and Times of Peter Green
updated 19 February 2025
 "Happy Valentines Day to you all" |
February 3rdI keep an eye on the sales for the Skyhooks "Living In The 70's" LP. At this rate the vinyl should sell out in 3 weeks. It's ticking over. Obviously not as many as week #1. People have to remember though, this record is fifty years old and for nearly 20 years the biggest selling Aussie album. I just love the artwork.I work on some of our Youtube numbers. The fans are always so supportive. We have 785 videos on my Youtube page. Some have hundreds of thousands of views, but I am delighted if they all get to 1000. Not sure why I picked 1000 but I strive to get them all to pass that number. February 4thI emailed Neil around doing a little video piece for the HESSIE mini documentary for the 20th anniversary of Paul's death but haven't heard anything yet. Which is ok, if Neil doesn't want to we don't make a fuss, same for everyone else. A few people have said Yes already so that is great. It should be pretty good, I hope for Marks sake people don't say YES at the 11th hour.I have been too healthy lately, eating too much fruit etc. So this morning I have bit of a tummy ache. Not much sleep so I blow out going into the charity. Rare that I do so but today I take it easy. It's a super hot day so the charity closes after half a day anyway. I hear from my surf friends Sister Caz B (Carolyn) it's been awhile, we have a bit of a laugh. She's still off into the wilds taking photos. Some are magnificent. I think she is visiting Melbourne in a few weeks before flying out. I decide to give Enzman Nigel a call, I tend to check on him on these hot days as he is getting on. He is fine and we have a decent chat. It always turns into an Enz chat. February 5thA few new volunteers at the Free Food program today, which is nice. Youngsters all of them, even if they only show up for a few weeks and help it's a positive. Support your local community, it feels good. Afterwards I drive all the extra watermelons to the pool. The days are warming up, those Aussie Summers where a cool dip and some free watermelon is a god send.At 2.00 I'm see Chantelle at Hair for the Hills for a cut & dye. The pool has tempted me so back for some swimming so a very short haircut again. My second coffee kicks in (rare a second) so I am yap yap and yapping. I'm surprised the hair girls don't drown me in the sink. Marks at home working on bits and pieces for the HESSIE doco. We lock in Paul's sister Carolyn, so she will be here in a few days time, hopefully with a few cool photos too. Nice to have the one remaining family member as she has some of those early memories of Paul. It adds a new dimension to the Paul story. Markys Youtube Wednesday today. A really excellent version of "Pineapple Head" LIVE at the Hanover Grand , London. 1996. Mark Hart is awesome in this clip. I remember we were up in the royal box filming and the Go Go's Belinda Carlisle was next to us and she wouldn't shut up. I had to yell at her, she looked pissed but the last thing we wanted on the audio was BC chatting. After all this could well be one of the last Crowded House gigs. Anyway please enjoy it and check it out. February 6thI'm on the way to the charity and call into the petrol station. I must of clicked some boost button as I score 350 Qantas points and I only bought a tiny bit of fuel. It all adds up into my freaky flyer account. Plus I score free coffee.Deb and myself pose for a "Get Well Soon Carol" sign and Deb text's it. She makes a boo-boo and sends it to the wrong Carol, the one she sent it too has been dead for 5 years. FUCKKK! Appalling I know but we both find the mistake to be rather funny. We are bad people. February 7thA cool parcel arrives from Mum. A few more pieces for this possible exhibit sometime in the future. My "Moon Day" box from 1969. It contains Super 8 colour film of the Moon Landing. Mum thinks she bought it via Disney after the moon landing. It's in mint condition. Very cool.I open the post office box and our 2 power bills have arrived, for house & office. Usually bills make me cringe especially after Winter as I am sure we use a lot of power. Imagine my surprise when the house bill is $8.63 for 3 months of power and the office is $12.72 in credit. I check the bill and PM Albanese/Labor's Government Energy Bill Relief has been deducted- $75.00 off each bill. Also a GSL rebate which is basically money from blackouts and the final deduction our excess solar energy from the renewable on the roof. This is brilliant- thank you Labor. Every Aussie power bill gets the Energy Relief Payment. It all helps and we appreciate it. I'm in my bedroom with Midnight and I hear that warning CRACK of a tree coming down. Normally I would grab the cat and run as the trees in the forest in our yard are HUGE. But something kicked in and for the first time I froze. I never freeze, not in disaster zones, not when the world is shaking. The tree noise did it, maybe some weird PTSD left over from the storm when those 50,000 trees came down at Kalorama. It's really odd, kind of annoying as I usually am in control of my body. Hopefully this is just a strange one off. Anyway, thankfully nothing hit the house, and just a massive tree limb across the top walk track. Mark heard it and we both investigate the scene and it craps him more than it does me. Everything is safe , just some big trimming and chainsaw effort. February 8thI have my early morning coffee and sit with one of my friends from the "Gentleman's Group". It's these older locals and I am called "the youngster". Anyway Ian has his chainsaw sharpened and offered to come up and chainsaw the bigger bits. I am stoked.I get home and Mark has already started on the tree limb. I join in and we now have 2 massive burn fires, which get burnt in a few months time. Midnight loves to climb around in the mangled tree parts. A new cat toy for her. The Werribee By Election is on. Labor have held this Victorian seat for 45 years and the Liberals have spent a fortune on it. You'd think after 45 years this would be an easy win for the Liberals. But it's not, by the end of the night Labor ahead by 441 votes. A solid swing against Labor but the voters are not giving their votes to the Libs. The Cannabis Party and Independents like Hopper get bigger swings than the Liberals. The final result will take a few days. I check out some numbers on my computer and providing Labor stay neck and neck with the Libs on postal votes, Labor will hold Werribee. That will piss the Libs off. We are still watching Prisoner , 692 episodes, we have about 30 episodes to go. PHEW what an effort. Shout out to Maggie Kirkpatrick, who played Joan Ferguson (The Freak) . So amazing to stay in character as that dark sadistic bitch for all those years. Brilliant. She really does have the best lines. I love that The Freak would write me letters. She was such a lovely lady, so weird to see her play that evil character. February 9thI hear from Bongo and I am in tears, the first real time I have let it rip since he told us of his Leukemia. Anyway a very private conversation but it left me shattered. So happy he called even in the sadness. It will be what it will be… and we are here for him and the family for whatever they need. I am drowning in messages though, we get around 800 a day via the Skyhooks Facebook page. So many amazing messages. IT's a shit scenario, he is like brother to us. It makes me incredibly sad.I make hamburgers for dinner. We had an excess of bits and pieces so I used them all up. Working with the Free Food program we waste almost zero these days. It's a good mindset. February 10thGrey & some rain, I think it will be over by the time Carolyn Hester arrives at 12.00.I buy us all some salad rolls and her request for doughnuts (a request we like). She's on time, wow she is nothing like her brother, was Paul ever on time, actually he was, well sometimes. LOL. Mark has it all set up in the lounge room, we are filming the interviews on the couch. Two segments for Carolyn. The first relates to photos that she is lending us. So she will say a few words around a few of them. The second more of a chat with me. By the second she is more relaxed. She has a lovely laugh. It feels really good having her on the doco. Loads off work for Mark this entire project. We finish at 3.30. I chat to Enz man Noel that night and he is up for the filming hopefully in a few weeks for "HESSIE". February 11thOur Skyhooks "Living in the 70's" LP is still in the top 500 , it sells a few more every week. The good thing is that the vinyl will sell out. Life in the old girl yet.It's a warm day at the charity so we close early. I am really happy as I get everything done for the Book Cave. My friend Tamsin is in and she helps clear several big donation boxes of books. At one stage there were more people in my book/dvd/cd area than the rest of the shop. People love the Book Nook. Hope the money raised helps many people. I work with an awesome crew. February 12thThe Skyhooks Facebook page has another jump in followers. 1200 more this week, so up top 16,257. So if you are reading this give our Skyhooks FB page visit and a "like". Long live the ‘Hooks.I made a note that in a months time our arty Split Enz video "MURDER" will be a year old. It's 500 views short of 12,000. I figured it would be great to have a thousand views a month for the year, so I am hoping we can get the final 500 over the next 4 weeks. If you want to give our Enz clip another view and make our wish come true, just click on this link. February 13thI drop in some recycle cans and give the $3.80 to one of the charities listed. I love the Vic Governments recycle cans program. Nice to see so many kids with their cans all lining up for it.After the Philanthropic Collective's food program today I head home and work in the office. A bit of this and a bit of that. Considering we are "retired" we seem to do more work now than before. It's super hot today. So we keep Midnight inside where either is nice and cool for Miss Kitty. February 14thHappy Valentines day to you all.Marky sneaks out and picks me flowers for the garden so that is a nice surprise in the morning. He also spoils me by paying all our rates for the year and some extra $ for me to enjoy. How did I get this lucky? I have been buying him a few treats every week for several weeks now. A hard cover Joanna Lumley book, a super box of Rocklea road, dvd and a super sexy egg and bacon fryer that is in the shape of a well a big cock! Yikes. I'll blame the girls at work for encouraging me to get this for M. Anyway he is my best friend, my sexy boyfriend and we are so lucky to have each other. Insanely happy after all these years. Life is good. With the rates paid we owe nothing, it kind of free's me up to do all the things I love like little arty projects. Flood warnings are coming in on my phone for inland Western Australia towns as cyclone Zelda brings lots of rain. I am heading up from the office to the house and the heavens open up plus huge blast of hail. Within seconds I am soaked. It disappears as quickly as it arrives, and I ask the question, why God are you pissing on me? February 15thOvercast, grey ,but nice and cool. A bit of relief after all of the heat.The Werribee By Election results are in and the Liberals failed. Labor kept their seat. Let the sour grapes flow. Lots of talk today about that idiot Peter Dutton and his seat of Dickson. Let's hope Ali France takes that seat and arsehole Dutton booted out of Australian Politics forever. Good riddance to Mr Potato Head. Fingers crossed. We are loving all the streaming channels, we watch the final episode of Under Investigation, hosted by Liz Hayes. A pretty good show. We wish they would have done one on the Wollongong Piccadilly Murder. It's raining outside when I finally go to bed, Midnight climbs up next to me and I have a really decent sleep tonight. February 16thI grab some books from the office to do a tiny bit of research on Paul Hester. I'm in front of the cameras tomorrow for a bit of a chat for the HESSIE doco. So I want to come across ok, I hate being filmed; great with radio but the camera is a one eyed demon and I want to attack it or run! Marky will be patient and put up with my fits of laughter that seem to happen.I'm in the office on this fine Sunday. Playing Skyhooks live any the Commodore Hotel (28/7/78). A weird show, Shirls kind of out of control, everyone has the flu, our lead singer about to quick the band, & some band members seem pissed off. But some songs are magnificent. Skyhooks rarely ever played a bad gig. This one seems strangely aggro. So this is where I leave you. Thanks to everyone who has been supporting Marty's Youtube Wednesday too, it's a Labour of love for Mark who spends ages working on this stuff. So it's really great that so many go to our Youtube page and watch them. Love and joy to you all. Peter P.S. Love that Buffy the Vampire Slayer is returning. Magnificent news! |
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